Jen McGovern, PhD, is a lecturer in
the Department of Political Science and Sociology at Monmouth University who is
passionate about teaching and learning sociology. She specializes in
understanding how sport both reflects and challenges social inequalities, such
as social class, race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, and sexuality. Her
previous research focused on the ways that professional baseball's
institutional structures have grown and changed and how local baseball fans
tell narratives about baseball players as the game has grown more global in
scope.